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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 02:47 PM
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La Mamma Morta
La mamma morta m'hanno
alla porta della stanza mia;
Moriva e mi salvava!
poi a notte alta
io con Bersi errava,
quando ad un tratto
un livido bagliore guizza
e rischiara innanzi a' passi miei
la cupa via!
Guardo!
Bruciava il loco di mia culla!
Così fui sola!
E intorno il nulla!
Fame e miseria!
Il bisogno, il periglio!
Caddi malata,
e Bersi, buona e pura,
di sua bellezza ha fatto un mercato,
un contratto per me!
Porto sventura a chi bene mi vuole!
Fu in quel dolore
che a me venne l'amor!
Voce piena d'armonia e dice:
"Vivi ancora! Io son la vita!
Ne' miei occhi è il tuo cielo!
Tu non sei sola!
Le lacrime tue io le raccolgo!breast!
Io sto sul tuo cammino e ti sorreggo!
Sorridi e spera! Io son l'amore!
Tutto intorno è sangue e fango?
Io son divino! Io son l'oblio!
Io sono il dio che sovra il mondo
scendo da l'empireo, fa della terra
un ciel! Ah!
Io son l'amore, io son l'amor, l'amor"
E l'angelo si accosta, bacia,
e vi bacia la morte!
Corpo di moribonda è il corpo mio.
Prendilo dunque.
Io son già morta cosa!
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 02:48 PM
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1. Great aria... and the only redeeming grace of "Philadelphia"
as he is listening to Maria Callas singing it. MmmmHmmmm...
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 02:49 PM
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2. As performed by Maria Callas, it brings a tear to the eye every time
:cry:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-19-05 02:54 PM
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3. For those who would like it in English
"They killed my mother
in the doorway of my room;
She died saving me!
Later, at dead of night,
I wandered about with Bersi,
when suddenly
a livid glow flickers
and lights ahead of me
the dark street!
I looked at it!
My childhood home was ablaze!
I was alone,
and surrounded by nothingness!
Hunger and poverty,
deprivation and danger.
I became ill,
and Bersi, so good and pure
traded her beauty
for my sake!
I bring misfortune to all who love me.
It was then, in my misery,
that love came to me!
And murmured in a sweet, melodius voice:
"You must live ! I am life itself!"
Heaven is in my eyes!
You are not alone!
Let your tears fall on my breast!
I will walk with you and be your support!
Smile and hope! I am love!
Is all around you blood and mire?
I am divine! I can make you forget!
I am the god who descends to earth
from the empyrean and makes this world
A paradise! Ah!
I am love, love, love"
And the angel approaches, kisses me,
and in that kiss is death!
The moribund body is my body.
Take it then!
I am already dead like it!
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